Correction: An earlier version of this column
stated incorrectly that Donald Trump's electoral college victory was the
seventh largest of the past 10 presidential elections. It ranked eighth of the
past 10 elections. This version has been updated.
I remember a sense of dread after Reagan was elected in 1980. It was nothing compared to this.
The CIA’s
finding that Vladimir Putin’s Russia actively intervened in our
election to help Donald Trump explains why many of us are not simply
disappointed or unhappy that Trump won. We are genuinely alarmed. And Trump’s
cavalier response to these fears only deepens them.
When The Post revealed the CIA’s conclusions about Russia,
Trump’s response was to insult the CIA, tell a lie about the size of his
victory and act as if an election still very fresh in our minds were some sort
of historical event dating back to the Pilgrims.
I wouldn't count on this, Rep. Schiff.
Rep. Adam B. Schiff of California, the ranking Democrat on
the House Intelligence Committee, was genuinely disturbed over how a pampered
and privileged man so readily threw our intelligence officers under the bus to
make a political point. “Perhaps, once he has taken office,” Schiff
said, “Mr. Trump will go to CIA and look at the rows of memorial stars in
the lobby — each representing a fallen officer — and reflect on his
disparagement of the intelligence community’s work.”
That's not how sociopaths roll.
Is it paranoid to want to know whether Tillerson’s ties to
Putin are why he is at the top of Trump’s list to be our top diplomat? Is it
out of line to wonder, given Trump’s lack of transparency about his finances,
what role Russia has played in his business empire? After all, his son Donald
Trump Jr. said
in 2008 that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section
of a lot of our assets” and added: “We see a lot of money pouring in from
Russia.” Now more than ever, we need to know exactly what he was talking about.
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